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Originally Posted by Aquaticedge
I may have a youtube link up somewhere. I'll check it out and see. All total though. plants buckets and soil I have about 50 bucks invested in it. I'm quite happy with the results. Despite Several setbacks. the Deer here suck. They ate my Cucumber plants. They also tried to kill my strawberry plants (both buckets) the strawberrys rebounded. the cucumbers... well, they diddnt and I lost the plants. I've replanted one bucket with pumpkins and the other with water melons. I still plan on planting Cantaloupes etc... this project has taken off.. and with nothing really better to do, It keeps me busy and mostly out of trouble
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Deer are a big issue here as well. If you feel like playing around a bit, any of those vine-producing plants (cukes, squash, pumpkins) will grow up a trellis. Growing them upward gives you more room to grow more things. My brother did a bunch of pumpkins and squash in Earth Boxes last year and built some trellis' out of conduit and string and was pretty successful. It was very strange seeing the Jack O'Lantern pumpkins hanging there. Obviously, one needs to be sure that the trellis is firmly anchored if one is going to (potentially) cover it with 15-20 lb. pumpkins. Of course, they would then be the perfect eating height for the deer.
